Jon, I am afraid your answer is as incomprehensible to me as was your original remark that prompted my question.
With all the best. Sung > Thread: > JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14286 > JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14290 > GF:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14313 > JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14350 > JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14351 > JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14352 > JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14359 > GF:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14383 > JLRC:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14388 > JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14394 > JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14409 > JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14422 > JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14433 > JBD:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14434 > BU:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14435 > JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14436 > JLRC:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14437 > FS:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14444 > JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14445 > JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14448 > SJ:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14476 > > Sung, List, > > Working on a TGIF deadline to get some other business done, > so only time for a few words & an "Exercise for the Reader". > > It is common to speak of icon/index/symbol as forming a "trichotomy", > but in truth its genealogy is that of a genus and two of its species. > Symbols are the generic examples of what it takes to be a sign in an > (object, sign, interpretant) triple in a triadic sign relation, while > icons and indices are less generic, more specialized, "nearly dyadic" > in the sense that their dyadic denotation relations figure saliently > in their use while the virtues whereby they denote their objects and > receive their interpretants recede into the ground of their gestalts. > > But icons and indices are still signs of the Peircean brand, > and as such components of elements of triadic sign relations. > Icons are icons only because they are interpreted as icons and > indices are indices only because they are interpreted as indices. > The interpretive character of the genus is visited on the species. > > But we constantly see that even these taxons intermingle and overlap > they are not the slices of a pie but the aspects or facets of a gem. > > Regards, > > Jon > > Sungchul Ji wrote: >> Jon >> >> "Trying to comprehend triadic relations by >> means of their projective trichotomies is a project >> ultimately doomed to fail." >> >> A couple of concrete examples would help in understanding what you mean >> by >> the doomed failure you are referring to. >> >> With all the best. >> >> Sung >> _________________________________________________ >> Sungchul Ji, Ph.D. >> Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology >> Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology >> Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy >> Rutgers University >> Piscataway, N.J. 08855 >> 732-445-4701 >> >> www.conformon.net >> > > -- > > academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey > my word press blog: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ > inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ > isw: http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/JLA > oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey > facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache >
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